Started out rather light and inoffensive. Not bad...just reticent. With some air, though, the "ferrous" qualities I have found in other (weirder) examples of fer-based wines came out more, but frankly a little more balanced and less weird than some of these other interesting wines from Southwestern France! Very meaty and spicy, with richness and minerality really shinging. An interesting and enjoyable and "different" French red!

...(Humans) are unique in our capacity to construct realities at utter odds with reality. Dogs dream and dolphins imagine, but only humans are deluded. –Jacob Bacharach

Started out rather light and inoffensive. Not bad...just reticent. With some air, though, the "ferrous" qualities I have found in other (weirder) examples of fer-based wines came out more, but frankly a little more balanced and less weird than some of these other interesting wines from Southwestern France! Very meaty and spicy, with richness and minerality really shinging. An interesting and enjoyable and "different" French red!

Thanks, Brian. That's a new producer for me, a self-proclaimed Fer Servadou fan (I used a far cruder term in my original proclamation). I fell in love with the '08 Causse Marines, but also have had good luck with the Dom. du Cros VV bottling. I find a distinct resemblance to Cab Franc in Fer Servadou, though from year to year it can vary between Loire CF and St. Emilion CF. For my part, I prefer the lighter renditions.

Well, I sampled another producer at Terroir, the natural wine bar in San Francisco, and that one was much more powerful...there was almost a shoe polish level of spicyness involved. It was very interesting, indeed!

darn it...wish I could remember the name!

I've had and enjoyed Causse Marine also.

...(Humans) are unique in our capacity to construct realities at utter odds with reality. Dogs dream and dolphins imagine, but only humans are deluded. –Jacob Bacharach